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Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One

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Mari Carmen Ramirez

Mari Carmen Ramirez is the Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, as well as that museum’s Wortham Curator of Latin American Art. Exhibits she has curated have toured nationally and internationally. She has contributed to dozens of publications and edited several books on Latin American Art. In 2005 Time magazine named her one of 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States.<< view less

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ABOUT MARIA HINOJOSA: ONE-ON-ONE

About María Hinojosa

María Hinojosa is a journalist and author as well as the managing editor and host of public radio's Latino USA.

Throughout her career, Hinojosa has garnered many awards and honors. Since 1995, Hispanic Business Magazine has named her one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States three times.

In 1991, Hinojosa won an Associated Press award for her coverage of Nelson Mandela for WNYC Radio. That same year, she won a Unity Award and the Top Story of the Year Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her NPR story Crews, about New York gang members. The NPR story evolved into the book Crews: Gang Members Talk to María Hinojosa.

She received both the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Radio Award and the New York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award for her NPR report Kids and Guns. For Manhood Behind Bars, a story for NPR that documented how incarceration has become a right of passage for men of all races, Hinojosa received the Robert F. Kennedy Award. She was inducted into the "She Made It" Hall of Fame of Women in Media. She is the author of the book Raising Raúl.

María Hinojosa: One-on-One is a production of La Plaza, the Latino production unit of WGBH Boston.